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Pfennig - Leopold III

Issuer Margraviate of Austria (Duchy of Austria, Austrian States)
Year 1110-1136
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Weight 0.99 g
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Obverse script Latin (pseudo/blundered)
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Reverse script Latin (pseudo/blundered)
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Leopold III — later canonized in 1485 and adopted as patron saint of Austria — ruled during the investiture controversies that reshaped ecclesiastical authority across the Holy Roman Empire. His pfennigs belong to the broad bracteate-adjacent coinage tradition of the eastern march, where thin, irregularly struck silver was the practical currency of a frontier territory still consolidating its identity after the Babenberg margraves had held the mark for barely a century.

The CNA B10 classification places this among the earlier documented Babenberg issues with reasonable attribution confidence, though die linkage across the type remains difficult given the fragility of the flans.

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